January 2022
140 studies entered the index this month.
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Understanding sports betting among young male student-teachers in Ghana
Drawing on sports betting, leisure studies and rationality concept provides information to understand how those training to be teachers are gradually gravitating towards gambling to the detriment of their studies at the university …
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The geography of gambling: A socio-spatial analysis of gambling machine location and area-level socio-economic status
This study mapped the geographical location and density of electronic gambling machines (EGMs) in Denmark and investigated whether gambling machines cluster in areas with specific socio-economic status (SES) characteristics …
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The Importance of Family and School Protective Factors in Preventing the Risk Behaviors of Youth
The aim of this study was to examine cross-sectional associations of protective factors within a family and school context with adolescent risk behaviors. The study was conducted among adolescents (n = 9682) from five cities in Croatia. Mean age of participants was 16.2 years (SD = 1.2), and 52.5% were female …
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The Impact of Problem Gambling on Families and Relationship Partners: A Scoping Literature Review
It has been determined that family members and relationship partners of persons with gambling disorders face a variety of problems …
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Research on the sustainable casino industry
최근 코로나19의 확산으로 인해 전 세계 관광산업은 큰 타격을 입었다. 국가 간 이동이 제한되고 사회적 거리두기를 시행하면서 코로나 이전의 관광이 불가능해짐에 따라 관광업계에서는 대체 수익을 마련하기 위해 노력했다. 항공업계는 비대면 확산으로 늘어난 전자상거래와 보복소비로 항공운송 수요가 급증함에 따라 항공화물로 자활책을 마련하고, 여행사나 호텔업계는 국내 관광의 수요가 증가함에 따라 내국인 관광객 유치를 통하여 자구책을 마련했지만, 국내 외국인 전용 카지노는 특별한 대체 수익원을 마련하기 어려운 실정이다 …
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Problem gambling, risk behaviours, and mental health in adolescence: A person oriented study
Adolescent gambling is becoming a public health problem. While comorbidities with other externalizing behaviours have been ascertained, few studies focus on adolescents with a multi-problem behaviour pattern, i.e., alcohol and tobacco use, in addition to antisocial behaviour, which includes problem gambling …
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POLITICAL MYTHS USED TO DELEGITIMISE GAMBLING IN UKRAINE
The process of gambling market legalization in Ukraine following more than eleven years of statutory ban on the organization of all types of gambling, except for lotteries, encounters opposition from both the shadow economy and politicians and officials, who, in addition to objective reasons for their interest in this political issue, may be involved in …
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Optimal strategies in the fighting fantasy gaming system: Influencing stochastic dynamics by gambling with limited resource
In many games and other processes, participants can choose to intervene in some way that does not follow the usual progress of the game (for example, cheating at cards, or spying on rivals) which may provide benefits, but also possibly incur substantial costs …
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News Frame Analysis About Loot Boxes in Games : Focused on Contents Analysis
‘확률형 아이템’은 게임사의 주요 비즈니스 모델로 자리를 잡았으나 사행성 논란과 청소년의 과소비를 조장한다는 지적으로 이를 규제해야 한다는 주장도 끊임없이 제기되고 있다. 정치권에서 관련 규제 도입 논의는 2015년부터 꾸준히 진행되어 왔으나, ‘확률형 아이템’과 관련한 사회적 담론이 어떻게 형성되었는지를 분석한 연구는 미비한 실정이다 …
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L’impact des troubles de l’humeur sur le devenir à 12 mois de patients en demande de traitement pour un trouble lié au jeu d’argent / The effect of mood disorders on outcome at 12 months on patients seeking treatment for a gambling disorder
Les troubles addictifs et de l’humeur sont fréquemment cooccurrents. Le trouble lié au jeu d’argent est ainsi souvent accompagné de troubles de l’humeur, notamment d’épisode dépressif majeur, de trouble bipolaire ou de comportement suicidaire …
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Gambling During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Experiences of Risks and Change Among Finnish Gamblers
This brief report presents results on how gamblers have experienced risks and change during the exceptional situation caused by the COVID-19 pandemic. The study is based on online questionnaires collected by the University of Helsinki and the Finnish Association for Substance Use Prevention (N = 586) …
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Erroneous Beliefs Verbalized While Playing Online Poker
The objective of this study was to compare erroneous beliefs of online Texas Hold’em poker players with different level of severity of problems, in situations that could cause negative emotions. Verbalizations of three groups of gamblers (low-risk, n=10; at-risk, n=10 and problem, n=10) while playing an online poker tournament in a laboratory setting …
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Early Detection of Gambling Among At-Risk Adolescents. Validation of EDGAR-A Scale
Despite the fact that minors have prohibited access to commercial gambling, and legislation trying to constrain gambling, an important proportion declares that they have bet either online, or by illegally entering gambling venues …
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Does the System Matter? Surplus Directed to Society in Monopolistic and License-Based Gambling Provision
The comparative advantages of license-based and monopolistic gambling regimes have been discussed in previous literature from the perspective of their capacity to prevent harms, but less is known about the ability of different regimes to produce public revenue. Gambling is nevertheless an important source of revenue for public service provision …
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Desarrollo de la industria siderúrgica y arquitectura de vanguardia del siglo XX en Chile: La Unidad departamental Acería CONOX y Colada Continua (1976), y Central de Alimentación y Casino (1973) en la usina de CAP-Huachipato, como ejemplos del paradigma brutalista
The Huachipato steel plant located in San Vicente Bay, Talcahuano, was set in motion in the mid-20th century as a state initiative (personified in CORFO), to create a national production center in the Bío-Bío area and to promote economic and social development, in response to the 1930 crisis and the Chillan earthquake, in 1939 …
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Accessing the invisible population of low-risk gamblers, issues with screening, testing and theory: a systematic review
Abstract Background While it is a generally accepted fact that many gambling screening tools are not fit for purpose when employed as part of a public health framework, the evidence supporting this claim is sporadic …
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Problem gambling and income as predictors of loot box spending
Loot boxes are randomized virtual rewards often purchasable for real money. They have often been compared to gambling activities, and a consistent link between loot box spending and problem gambling symptomatology has been found …
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Exploring the pathways model in a sample of patients with gambling disorder
From clinical and research perspectives, the Pathways Model has been supported in adolescent and adult populations as a theoretical explanatory framework for considering gambling disorder (GD). However, it has been less well explored in clinical samples …
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Neuroimaging of Dopamine Transporter Density in the Striatum of Disordered Gamblers
The aim of the present research was to add to the growing literature on dopamine and gambling disorder (GD) by assessing whether GD is associated with dopamine transporter (DAT) density in the ventral striatum compared to healthy controls and whether DAT density was associated with key characteristics of GD (e.g., abstinence, craving) …
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“That’s No Country for ‘Young’ Men”: A Critical Perspective on Responsible Online Gambling Policies for Gambling Disorder Prevention in Spanish Minors
Recently, some governments and other stakeholders in countries where online gambling has been legalized have implemented responsible gambling policies …
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Loot box engagement: A scoping review of primary studies on prevalence and association with problematic gaming and gambling
Loot boxes are an increasingly common type of random microtransaction in videogames. There is some concern about their expansion and entailed risks, especially among adolescents …
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Repetitive Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (rTMS) as a Promising Treatment for Craving in Stimulant Drugs and Behavioral Addiction: A Meta-Analysis
Addiction is a mental disorder with limited available treatment options. The therapeutic potential of repetitive transcranial magnetic stimulation (rTMS) on it, by targeting craving in particular, has been explored with heterogenous results …
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As time goes by: Gioco d’azzardo e invecchiamento
La percentuale di anziani sul totale della popolazione europea e di altri paesi occidentali è aumentata notevolmente negli ultimi anni. Con il rapido invecchiamento della popolazione, la partecipazione al gioco d'azzardo (gambling) degli anziani sta crescendo significativamente ed è diventata un importante problema di salute pubblica in molti paesi …
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Using "Markers of Harm" to Track Risky Gambling in Two Cohorts of Online Sports Bettors
Online gambling poses novel risks for problem gambling, but also unique opportunities to detect and intervene with at-risk users. A consortium of gambling companies recently committed to using nine behavioral "Markers of Harm'' that can be calculated with online user data to estimate risk for gambling-related harm …
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UPAYA POLRES PASAMAN BARAT DALAM MEMBERANTAS TINDAK PIDANA PERJUDIAN ONLINE
The phenomenon of online gambling that is now rife in society, especially in internet cafes or by using a laptop, is lottery gambling. The problems are: 1) What factors encourage online gambling offenders; 2) How are the efforts of the West Pasaman Police in the eradicating of Online Gambling Crime? …
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Social and Spatiotemporal Impacts of Casino Jackpot Events
This study empirically investigates the effect of casino jackpots on the subsequent betting behavior of jackpot winners, their peers, and bystanders playing in nearby slot machines.
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Gambling-related suicide in East African Community countries: evidence from press media reports
Gambling activities and associated mental health problems have become a topic of increased concern globally. Many individuals with a severe gambling disorder have gambling-related suicidality. However, no study has explored gambling-related suicide in East African Community (EAC) countries …
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COVID-19 lockdown: The relationship between trait impulsivity and addictive behaviors in a large representative sample of Italian adults
The importance of trait impulsivity in development, continuation and escalation of addictive behaviors has long been recognized …
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The Prevalence and Correlates of Gambling in Australian Secondary School Students
Abstract Youth gambling is associated with a range of harms …
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Craving variations in patients with substance use disorder and gambling during COVID-19 lockdown: The Italian experience
Following the development of the coronavirus disease-2019 (COVID-19) pandemic in Italy, a strict lockdown was imposed from March 9 to May 5, 2020. The risks of self-medication through alcohol or psychoactive substance abuse were increased, as well as the tendency to adopt pathological behaviors, such as gambling and internet addiction …
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Advancing the Pathways Model: Financially Focused Self-concept and Erroneous Beliefs as Core Psychopathologies in Disordered Gambling
In the Pathways Model, there are three distinct etiological subtypes of disordered gambling (Behaviourally Conditioned, Emotionally Vulnerable, and Anti-Social Impulsive Risk-Taker). The Pathways Model also posits that erroneous gambling beliefs are a maintenance factor of disordered gambling across the subtypes …
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The Effect of Religious Beliefs and Attitudes in Intrinsic and Extrinsic Optimism and Pessimism in Players of Games of Chance
Games of chance usually make people feel a whirlwind of emotions, especially in gambling. While those games depend more on luck than on individuals’ skills, optimism should be a distinctive feature …
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On a Unique Solution of the Stochastic Functional Equation Arising in Gambling Theory and Human Learning Process
The term “learning” is often used to refer to a generally stable behavioral change resulting from practice. However, it is a fundamental biological capacity far more developed in humans than in other living beings. In an animal or human being, the learning phase may often be viewed as a series of choices between multiple possible reactions …
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Mental Health Over Time and Financial Concerns Predict Change in Online Gambling During COVID-19
This study examined online gambling behavior during COVID-19 land-based gambling restrictions and associations with changes in mental health, impacts on household income due to the pandemic, financially focused motivations, and symptoms of gambling problems. A repeated online survey was administered to adult gamblers in Ontario, Canada …
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Management And Eradication Of The Criminal Act Of Togel Gaming In The Police Jurisdiction
This study aims to determine the causes of the rampant lottery gambling in the jurisdiction of the Pematang Siantar Police and the countermeasures carried out by the Pematang Siantar Police in eradicating the crime of lottery gambling in the jurisdiction of the Pematang Siantar Police. The data used in this study are primary data and secondary data …
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From Habit-Forming to Habit-Breaking Availability: Experiences on Electronic Gambling Machine Closures During COVID-19
Electronic gambling machines (EGMs) are among the most harmful forms of gambling. The structural characteristics of EGMs prolong and reinforce gambling similarly to other habit-forming technologies …
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Using Icon Arrays to Communicate Gambling Information Reduces the Appeal of Scratch Card Games
Past work has demonstrated that presenting statistical information in a foreground-background icon array can improve risk understanding, reduce decision-making biases, and decrease the salience of low-probability risks …
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Gambling in professional sport: the enabling role of “regulatory legitimacy”
Purpose This study aims to explain why organisations remain vulnerable to financial failure despite increasing financial regulation to improve governance. Using a case study of gambling and regulation in professional football in England, it introduces the concept of “regulatory legitimacy” to show how this enables football clubs to gamble …
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Revising Substance-Related Disorders in the DSM-5: A History
This article narrates a history of several important changes to the substance-related disorders chapter in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5), based on interviews with people involved in the pre-planning and the development of the revisions …
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Treatment for the concerned significant others of gamblers: A systematic review
Abstract Background and aims Research recognizes the extent of harm experienced by concerned significant others (CSOs) of gamblers. This systematic review’s aims are to examine the interventions for CSOs, evaluate potential benefits, and thematically describe treatment processes …
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Gambling and Gaming in the United Kingdom during the COVID-19 Lockdown
During the first UK national COVID-19 lockdown, there were fears that increased online gaming and gambling could negatively impact wellbeing …
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An examination of the interrelationship between disordered gambling and intimate partner violence
In response to the liberalisation and deregulation of gambling across much of the Western world, academics continue to examine gambling-related harms that result from the increased availability of gambling products and services. This paper explores the interrelationship between disordered gambling and intimate partner violence …
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Proneness to Alcohol use Disorder or Pathological Gambling as Differentially Determined by Early Parental and Personality Factors
Owing to growing alcoholism and gambling, numerous variables have been the subject of study to better understand the causes of such addictions …
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Exploring lottery ticket hypothesis in media recommender systems
Media recommender systems aim to capture users’ preferences and provide precise personalized recommendation of media content …
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Use of electronic cigarettes and heated tobacco products during the Covid-19 pandemic
Only a few studies investigated changes in electronic cigarette (e-cigarette) and heated tobacco product (HTP) use during pandemic restrictions. We conducted a web-based cross-sectional study of a representative sample of 6,003 Italian adults during the strictest phase of the Covid-19 lockdown (April-May 2020) …
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Implementation of a COVID-19 Screening Testing Program in a Rural, Tribal Nation: Experience of the San Carlos Apache Tribe, January-February 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has disproportionately affected tribal populations, including the San Carlos Apache Tribe. Universal screening testing in a community using rapid antigen tests could allow for near-real-time identification of COVID-19 cases and result in reduced SARS-CoV-2 transmission …
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How Cues of Being Watched Promote Risk Seeking in Fund Investment in Older Adults
Social cues, such as being watched, can subtly alter fund investment choices. This study aimed to investigate how cues of being watched influence decision-making, attention allocation, and risk tendencies. Using decision scenarios adopted from the "Asian Disease Problem," we examined participants' risk tendency in a financial scenario when they were watched …
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Quando o jogo se torna patológico / When gambling becomes pathological
O jogo patológico caracteriza-se pela perda de controlo em relação ao jogo e por um pensamento irracional que mantem este comportamento apesar das consequências negativas. Tem um impacto significativo no indivíduo e na sociedade, com prejuízos sociais, financeiros e emocionais …
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Psychological portrait of a fatal woman in the novel F. M. Dostoevsky’s «gambler»
Психологічний портрет фатальної жінки в романі Ф. М. Достоєвського «Гравець» У статті розглядається проблема репрезентації психологічного портрету фатальної жінки в романі Ф. М …
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Perceived Gambling Availability and Adolescent Gambling Behavior: the Moderating Role of Self-Efficacy
Abstract Geographic accessibility has been linked to gambling behavior, but little is known about whether the perception of gambling availability in both offline and online venues is prospectively associated with adolescent gambling behavior …
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Hydrogeochemistry of porphyry-related solutes in ground and surface waters; an example from the Casino Cu–Au–Mo deposit, Yukon, Canada
The Casino Cu–Au–Mo deposit is one of the largest and highest-grade porphyries of its kind in Canada, residing in an unglaciated region of west-central Yukon …
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Harms Of Loot Boxes And Approaching Regulation In Singapore
‘Loot boxes’ are a type of videogame monetization model that contains randomized rewards of varying rarities which emerged in recent years. The element of chance seeks to entice players into buying loot boxes in hopes of receiving a rare and desirable reward …
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An Epidemiologic, Longitudinal, and Discordant-Twin Study of the Association Between Gambling Disorder and Suicidal Behaviors
Gambling disorder is associated with suicidal behaviors, but it is not clear whether the association is due to common etiologic factors or to gambling disorder being causally related to suicidality. This question was examined from epidemiologic, longitudinal, and discordant twin study perspectives …
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Knowledge of random events and chance in people with gambling problems: an item analysis
This paper examines the items of two scales, the Random Events Knowledge Test (REKT) and the Chance Test, and examines their relationship with problem gambling (N = 1375) …
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Satisfaction of Basic Psychological Needs and Adherence to Responsible Gambling Practices: The Mediating Role of Flourishing
Responsible gambling (RG) is a practical approach to contain potential gambling-associated harms to an acceptable level. However, few studies have proposed a theoretical framework to account for significant individual differences in RG adherence, which hinders an effective RG promotion in public …
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Impaired Metacognitive Differentiation, High Difficulty in Controlling Impulses and Non-acceptance of Emotions are Associated With the Severity of Gambling Disorder
The role of metacognition in gambling disorder (GD) is underexplored. To date, only two studies have investigated the role of metacognitive functioning, but among the adolescent population …
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The affective embeddings of gacha games: Aesthetic assemblages and the mediated expression of the self
This article argues that the motivations for investing money in gacha games can be a function of the affective embedding of players within the game, and the game within broader circuits of cultural affinity and appeal …
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Impact of Internal and Customer Sexual Harassment on Job-related Outcomes: The Case of Female Casino Employees
This study examines the impact of internal and customer sexual harassment on job-related outcomes using a sample of 348 female frontline employees in the context of Macao casinos. The results showed that internal sexual harassment led to lower job satisfaction, as well as higher turnover intention through its impact on job satisfaction …
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Unravelling the web of addictions: A network analysis approach
Common elements across different forms of addiction suggest the possibility of comorbid addictions, as well as the transition/replacement of one form of addiction with another. This study aimed to conduct a Network analysis of symptoms of 10 forms of addictive behaviors to examine their behavioral commonalities/ interrelations …
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The Prevalence of Impulse Control Disorders and Behavioral Addictions in Eating Disorders: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Individuals with eating disorders (EDs) may present with impulse control disorders (ICDs) and behavioral addictions (BAs), which may result in additional suffering and treatment resistance. However, the prevalence of ICDs and BAs in EDs has not been systematically examined …
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Prevalence and Trends in Problem Gambling in Denmark with Special Focus on Country of Origin: Results from the Danish Health and Morbidity Surveys
Belonging to an ethnic minority has been described as a possible risk factor for problem gambling, but the literature is inconclusive whether this association is true or just a proxy for other underlying risk factors …
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Emotion regulation-enhanced group treatment for gambling disorder: a non-randomized pilot trial
Despite the association of Gambling Disorder (GD) with poor mental health, treatment options generally lack components targeting emotional difficulties. This study investigated the feasibility and acceptability of adding strategies of emotion regulation to an eight-session weekly group treatment …
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Trapping the Ultimate Success
We introduce a betting game where the gambler aims to guess the last success epoch in a series of inhomogeneous Bernoulli trials paced randomly in time. At a given stage, the gambler may bet on either the event that no further successes occur, or the event that exactly one success is yet to occur, or may choose any proper range of future times (a trap) …
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The effects of induced sadness, stress sensitivity, negative urgency, and gender in laboratory gambling
Previous research indicates that the invigorating effect of stress sensitivity on gambling behavior might be moderated by individual differences. The current preregistered study tested whether gender and negative urgency (i.e …
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Validating the Two-Factor Model of the Gambling Functional Assessment – Revised in a Mainland Chinese sample
The Gambling Functional Assessment -Revised (GFA-R) was developed to measure the degree to which gambling behavior is maintained by positive reinforcement and/or negative reinforcement.In the current study, the GFA-R, South Oaks Gambling Screen, and Problem Gambling Severity Index were translated into simplified Chinese and completed by university students …
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Using the grip-strength effort task to measure reward-processing deficits in major depressive disorder and schizophrenia
degree of success [4].Objective: To evaluate the medium-term efficacy and tolerability of naltrexone in young patients diagnosed with online gambling disorder (OGD).Methods: A group of 12 outpatients, 7 male and 5 female, mean age 22.3 (age interval between 18 and 25), diagnosed with OGD according to the DSM-5 criteria for gambling disorder, received …
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Una proposta di follow-up come attività integrata nella presa in carico del paziente con disturbo da gioco d'azzardo. Analisi dei primi dati emersi dall'esperienza dell'Ambulatorio per la prevenzione e il trattamento del gioco d'azzardo patologico (DGA) del SerD di Padova - Ulss 6 Euganea
Il presente studio prevede la valutazione in brevi intervalli di tempo di pazienti con Disturbo da Gioco d'Azzardo (DGA) in trattamento per rilevare indicazioni significative e minimizzare le ricadute post recovery …
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Thomas Jones et le Casino Vignola Boccapaduli au 18e siècle
Lors de son séjour en Italie entre 1776 et 1783, le peintre paysagiste gallois Thomas Jones (1742-1803) a réalisé un nombre important de vues de Rome et de ses environs, toutes soigneusement datées …
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Therapeutic management of young patients diagnosed with online gambling disorder
on voxel-wise images, whereas elastic net models were based on extracted FA values and subcortical and cortical measures.In each model, 5-folds nested crossvalidations were performed in inner and outer loops.SVM and MKL were implemented in Pattern Recognition for Neuroimaging Toolbox (PRoNTo) [4], elastic net was solved through the coordinate descent …
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Theorising on tourist flows and business cycles in casino cities
Two models of gambling destinations were developed to illustrate how external shocks from tourist origin countries are spread via tourist flows into destinations.Theorising on such mechanisms made it possible to simulate the driving forces behind business cycles and offer a theoretical construct for numerical analysis.It was found that favourable changes …
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The safety of young employees in the gambling industry
Modern society shifts its focus to the security of the individual, as the basic unit of society, in all spheres of his life. The aim of this study is to present the results of research on the subjective feeling of safety of employees in the gaming industry in Serbia. The results showed that almost half of them feel insecure in their workplace …
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The role of sign tracking in the formation of process addiction
Current treatment for process addiction, such as gambling disorder and game addiction, is primarily psychotherapy, and effective pharmacotherapy has not been established. One reason is the lack of appropriate behavioral test batteries for mice to identify the causes of addiction and conduct pharmacological tests …
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The role of attention in decision-making under risk in disordered gambling: an eye-tracking study
order to perform preventive plans and decide the best treatment approach needed across sexes.
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The negative effect of internet gambling on youth psychology
This article discusses online internet gambling and its psychological dependence. In today's society, with the development of information technology, various computer games and their addictions are becoming more common among young people. Gambling can have a profound effect on a person's psychological well-being, leading to stress and depression …
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The frequency and content of televised UK gambling advertising during the men’s 2020 Euro soccer tournament
Abstract Gambling marketing is frequently visible in the United Kingdom, especially around the national sport, soccer. Previous research has documented the frequency with which gambling marketing logos can be seen in domestic club soccer, and also the frequency of television advertising around international tournaments …
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The Impact of Corporate Social Investment on Customer Loyalty in the Gaming Industry
Sports betting has become a very profitable business of late. For instance, in 2020, it contributed 48% of Africa’s Gross Gaming Revenue (GGR), and the South African Bookmaking business was ranked ninth in the world for web traffic. The relevance of this scientific problem decision is that the industry is saturated with many betting companies …
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The Ex-Casino-Hotel Palace of Biskra, from Patrimonialization to Sustainable Tourism
As in a fairy tale, the ex-Casino-Hotel palace 1 of Biskra, presents a true copy of the architecture of the Moorish palaces of the Maghreb.Anxious to preserve the country's triumphant local colour, and to promote Saharan winter tourism during the French colonial period, the architect of historical monuments in Algeria, Albert Ballu 2 , took care to build …
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THE PUBLIC GOVERNANCE SYSTEM OF GAMBLING IN UKRAINE AND ITS ELEMENTS
Adnotacja: W artykule omówiono system publicznego zarządzania biznesem hazardowym na Ukrainie.Autor, stosując podejście działalnościowe w celu zrozumienia określonego zjawiska lub procesu, proponuje, aby system publicznego zarządzania biznesem hazardowym obejmował następujące elementy: podmioty zarządzania, obiekty zarządzania, cel i zamiary zarządzania …
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Symposium
Behavioral Addictions: Current State of Research. Conceptual Understanding: The concept of Behavioral addictions has gained momentum in recent scientific studies. Current conceptualization of Behavioral addictions is sharing commonalities and similarities with other forms of addictive disorders …
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Social and lifestyle characteristics of sports bettors in Serbia
The aim of our study was to examine the prevalence of sports betting in the previous month in Serbia and its association with social and lifestyle characteristics. Methods: The analysis of the data from the cross-sectional survey National Survey on lifestyles in Serbia: substance abuse and gambling conducted in 2014 was performed …
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SOME QUESTIONS OF THE THEORY AND PRACTICE OF CRIMINAL PROSECUTION FOR ILLEGAL ORGANIZATION AND CONDUCT OF GAMBLING
The article also reveals and justifies the need to introduce criminal liability for illegal organization and conduct of gambling …
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Reviewing the Consequences of Electronic Gaming Machine Misuse in Australian Older Adults: Implications for Addiction Nurses
ABSTRACT: This review explores contemporary literature exploring electronic gaming machine (EGM) use in the Australian context. EGMs, colloquially known in Australia as pokies (poker machines), lead statistics on gambling losses in Australia and are a substantially different form of gambling when compared with other means, such as sports or casino wagering …
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Reviewing the Consequences of Electronic Gaming Machine Misuse in Australian Older Adults: Implications for Addiction Nurses
Journal of Addictions Nursing: 1/3 2022 - Volume 33 - Issue 1 - p E1 doi: 10.1097/JAN.0000000000000454
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Review of the scientific work: Toporetskaya Z. M. Public Administration gambling business and lottery activities and countering crimes related thereto: theory and practice: monograph. Kyiv: Alerta, 2022. 424 p. CURRENT EDITION ON ISSUES PUBLIC MARKET MANAGEMENT GAMBLING BUSINESS AND LOTTERIES
Review of the scientific work: Toporetskaya Z. M. Public Administration gambling business and lottery activities and countering crimes related thereto: theory and practice: monograph. Kyiv: Alerta, 2022. 424 p.
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RISK OF LEGALIZATION OF FUNDS BY BANK CLIENTS FROM GAMBLING CONDUCTED ON THE INTERNET: APPROACHES TO MEASUREMENT
Today's fraudsters try to use modern financial services and products provided by banking institutions to legalize criminal proceeds and finance terrorism. Moreover, money laundering through banks using operations related to gambling occupies a significant place and has already turned into a serious financial problem …
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Probability disclosures are not enough: Reducing loot box reward complexity as a part of ethical video game design
Loot boxes are virtual products in video games that provide randomized rewards, and accordingly share structural similarities with gambling. Policymakers around the world are presently considering how best to regulate loot boxes …
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Photonic decision making for solving competitive multi-armed bandit problem using semiconductor laser networks
Multi-armed bandit problems concern decision making when selecting a slot machine among many slot machines with initially uncertain hit probabilities to maximize the total reward; this is a fundamental problem of reinforcement learning …
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Pathological gambling: Addiction or impulse control disorder?
Pathological gambling is the most widespread and severe form of non-chemical addiction. It is challenging to categorize pathological gambling into just one category, ie. into a disorder characterized by impulsivity or into behavioral addiction, since there are obvious overlaps …
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Optimal Valuation of Retailer Equity Financing Based on Gambling Agreements in Centralized Supply Chain
This paper explores the issue of optimal valuation of retailer equity financing based on gambling agreements in a centralized supply chain. Firstly, the betting target settings are classified into three cases: high, medium, and low …
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Online casinos: advertising and avoidance among Generation Y consumers in Sweden
Abstract Online casinos are one of Sweden’s largest gambling sectors. Increased advertising investment and advertising frequency have sought to attract Generation Y consumers to these casinos, yet it has been suggested that advertising can contribute to avoidance behaviours towards products and services, including online casinos and specific gambling brands …
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Modeling and Security Verification of State-Based Smart Contracts
Smart contracts are programs that are stored on a blockchain ledger with code immutable after deployment. Thus, verifying the correct behavior of smart contracts before deployment is vital. This paper demonstrates how a security vulnerability verification in a casino smart contract can be transformed to non-blocking verification …
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Mindfulness and Impulsive Urgency are Related but Not Interacting Predictors of Disordered Gambling
Research suggests that emotion regulation problems are involved in disordered gambling. A cross-sectional correlational study of 296 Australian community gamblers investigated trait mindfulness as a protective factor for emotionally impulsive gamblers …
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Maternal immune activation impairs endocannabinoid signaling in the mesolimbic system of adolescent offspring
degree of success [4].Objective: To evaluate the medium-term efficacy and tolerability of naltrexone in young patients diagnosed with online gambling disorder (OGD).Methods: A group of 12 outpatients, 7 male and 5 female, mean age 22.3 (age interval between 18 and 25), diagnosed with OGD according to the DSM-5 criteria for gambling disorder, received …
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MISCOORDINATION, POLITICS AND POPULISM
Abstract We present two models that shed light on two issues in the political economy of populism: incumbents who refuse to give up office following a democratic election; and politicians gambling with major policy shifts when their consequences are uncertain …
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Lotto as Options: Measuring the Silver Lining Effect
Lotto tickets normally have negative expected value that sometimes turns positive with carryover or promotions. The purchase of lotto tickets by professional bettors has been shown to be rational economic behavior during these periods …
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Longitudinal Assessment of a Manualized Group Treatment Program for Gambling Disorder: The Ohio Problem Gambling Treatment Model for Adults with Co-Occurring Disorders
Abstract Individuals with gambling disorder (GD) experience a host of negative psychosocial and physical health outcomes, yet few seek treatment. Of particular concern are individuals with co-occurring mental and behavioral health disorders, a group at higher risk for GD in the state of Ohio …
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Les usages de la photographie par Casino durant l’entre-deux-guerres
Créée à la fin du xixe siècle, l’entreprise Casino se développe rapidement. Elle adopte le modèle succursaliste alors en vogue et ouvre de nombreuses enseignes dans tout le sud-est de la France …
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LEGISLATIVE FORM OF GAMING BUSINESS PUBLIC GOVERNANCE
The article deals with the form of public governance of gambling in Ukraine from 2020 – the state monopoly on the organization and conduct of gambling. Based on the generalizations of the world's existing forms of public management of gambling, it was concluded that the state monopoly is the most successful model of public administration for our state …
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Kann denn Spielen Sünde sein?
In pre-modern history, games were considered beneficial for the balance of the humours. Gambling for money, however, was often associated with greed, one of the deadly sins. In the 16th century, a change occurred. Leone da Modena describes gambling as a special form of mercantile action, Pascasius Justus treats gambling as illness (not as vice) …
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Internet Gambling through Text Mining Analysis
The current study aimed to identify the rising phenomenon of online gambling in news data using Big Kinds, and to check the connection structure of important words.This study used the text-mining method to analyze text data collected from the Naver News portal to identify important patternsof Internet gambling.The web-crawling technique was adopted for …
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How best to improve upon return-to-player information in gambling? A comparison of two approaches in an Australian sample
Abstract “Return-to-player” information is used in several jurisdictions to display the long-run cost of gambling, but previous evidence suggests that these messages are frequently misunderstood by gamblers …
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How Do Financial Market Outcomes Affect Gambling?
A large literature in behavioral finance explores how gambling sentiments influences trading in stocks. This paper considers the reverse phenomena; the impact of financial market outcomes on aggregate gambling expenditures. We expect the wealth effect of higher realized stock returns will increase gambling (entertainment good) …
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Governance and strategies of gambling business in Southeast Asia
Numerous nations are worried about adolescent gambling addiction and challenges associated with gambling. Therefore, they have developed strategies to address these concerns (Dixon et al., 2016) …
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Gambling in retirement. Perspectives of problem and non-problem female gamblers in terms of awareness of risk and consequences
Due to the negative connotations of gambling in Poland and the specific roles assigned to older women, we were interested in how they perceive their involvement in gambling, whether they perceive the inherent risks and how this perception differs depending on the intensity of problem gambling …
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Gambling Problems among Students Attending University in the United Kingdom: Associations with Gender, Financial Hardship and Year of Study
University students may be at increased risk of gambling related problems. The present study investigated the gambling experience and general wellbeing of domestic and international students attending a higher-education university in the United Kingdom (UK) …
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Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Gambler in Hungarian Translations: The Interpretation of the Concept ‘Passion in Love’ (‘Lyubovnaya Strast’)
The article presents the first attempt to study the Hungarian translations of Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Gambler …
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Frédéric Pillet, le Casino et l’histoire du cinéma
Federalization, decentralization, and fragmentation each pose a distinct risk to the coherence of Belgium’s foreign policy. They complicate its formulation, disrupt its coordination mechanisms, and diminish the scope for compromises. Among other effects, this incoherence tends to lead Belgium to abstain on the international stage …
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From Claw Crane to Toy Crane: Catching, Courting, and Gambling in South Korea
The claw crane-an arcade game that invites its players to remotely grab a prize with a "claw"-has undergone a long process of development from an eye-catching "steam shovel" to a calculated gambling machine across amusement arcades, train stations, and traveling carnivals.Recently, the claw crane has become a common transmedia object in various consumer …
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Fold, check, hit me! Impact of lifestyle on the trajectories of problem gamblers
Fold, check, hit me! Impact of lifestyle on the trajectories of problem gamblers. Un article de la revue Criminologie (Prize winning articles from Criminologie) diffusée par la plateforme Érudit.
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Feigning Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) Through Health-Washing: Gambling Industry Conflicts of Interest in Health Service Provision and Training in Ireland
The gambling industry in Ireland, and elsewhere continues to grow. Evidence of the nature and extent of the gambling problem in Ireland has started to emerge. In order to better understand the machinations, tactics and strategies of the gambling industry it is instructive to review the activities of the global tobacco and alcohol industries …
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Factors contributing to development of pathological gambling and substance-use disorder comorbidity according to patients and professionals
In psychiatry, comorbidity is defined as an overlap of two or more mental disorders.Understanding the problem of comorbidity is an important condition for meeting individual patients' needs.However, the problem is still insufficiently recognised in Polish conditions.Therefore the aim of this study is to determine what psychological and social factors can …
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FOOTBALL BETTING AND BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS: A NOTE
The strategy of oddsmakers to alter point spreads that capitalize on bettors’ preference for popular teams not only dooms regular profits for gamblers but also provides a clear example of imperfect decision-making for behavioral economists. The fear of regret suggests that bettors gravitate toward popular teams since any losses would not be peculiar to them …
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FEATURES OF DETECTION AND DOCUMENTATION OF GAMBLING RELATED CRIMES
The article is devoted to establishing the features of detection and documentation of gambling related crimes …
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Extending Einstein’s elevator thought experiment to multiple spatial dimensions at the Luxor Hotel & Casino
In 1907, Albert Einstein wrote one of his most important works, involving a comparison of the physical phenomenon that would be observed in an imaginary elevator in a gravitational field and an imaginary elevator that is accelerating in a zero-gravity environment …
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Effects of a workplace prevention program for problem gambling: A cluster-randomized controlled trial
Background and Aims: This study evaluated whether a preventive intervention program for problem gambling would increase managers' inclination to act when concerned about gambling in the workplace. Design: Cluster randomized controlled trial. Ten workplaces were randomized to either intervention or control condition …
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EXPRESSIVE AND EVALUATIVE POTENTIAL OF IDIOMS OF GAMBLING IN SPANISH
The research paper is dedicated to functional analysis of the idioms of gambling in Contemporary Spanish. The studied phraseological units are frequently used in texts of news, in particular, in the titles. There are few cases of the use of Spanish lexicon of gambling as proper names: ergonyms and names of plates …
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Classic Psychedelics in Addiction Treatment: The Case for Psilocybin in Tobacco Smoking Cessation
This manuscript reviews research suggesting that classic psychedelics (5-HT2A receptor agonists) are effective in treating addictions including tobacco use disorder. I review historical research from the 1950s to 1970s suggesting that classic psychedelics are associated with addiction recovery across pharmacologically distinct drugs of addiction …
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Casino-Kurs stürzt ab
Casino kämpft im französischen Heimatmarkt. Nach einer Gewinnwarnung brach der Kurs der Casino-Aktie zu Wochenbeginn regelrecht ein.
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Birds of a Feather Flock Together: Generating Pornographic and Gambling Domain Names Based on Character Composition Similarity
Cybercriminals often register many pornographic or gambling domains (known as abusive domains) with similar character compositions in bulk to reduce their investment in buying domains and make it easier for clients to remember and spread them …
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Betting on a buzz, mispricing and inefficiency in online sportsbooks
Bookmakers sell claims to bettors that depend on the outcomes of professional sports events. Like other financial assets, the wisdom of crowds could help sellers to price these claims more efficiently. We use the Wikipedia profile page views of professional tennis players involved in over 10,000 singles matches to construct a buzz factor …
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ABOUT THE CYBERSECURITY OF MILITARY PERSONNEL PLAYING GEOLOCATION GAMES WHILE STAYING AT DEPARTMENTAL CRITICAL INFORMATION INFRASTRUCTURE FACILITIES
The subject of research in the scientific article is the state of cybersecurity of the Armed Forces of Ukraine from the gambling dependence of military personnel. Purpose of the article …